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visited Brad’s
parents and told them that they needed to fix this or he was going to call in
their loan. I’d heard my dad talking about it on the phone after Brad had
transferred to a school out West. He didn’t want to go, but his parents knew
that they had to act fast or things were going to get bad for them. The Silvers
had a lot of influence in town and had made it clear that they wouldn’t mind
using it on my behalf.

 
    Brad’s leaving was a godsend to me. I’d been able
to finish high school without worrying about seeing him in town and move on
with my life without him in it. What I hadn’t been able to do was feel
comfortable enough to date other guys. What happened with Brad had added some
serious trust issues to my abandonment issues. Not a good mixture for teenage
dating. I focused on school and flying and forgot about boys for a while. And
when the time came for me to pick a college, it made sense for me to attend
Blythe but stay at home with my dad. Until he’d decided that I needed to spread
my wings and could only do that while living on campus. Brad hadn’t been a
problem for more than two years, and I didn’t have an excuse to stay home any
longer.

 
    Did that mean I was ready to date again, too? If my
reaction to meeting Drake was any indication, then the answer was a resounding
yes. With his hands on my arms and his gorgeous brown eyes gazing into mine,
all I had wanted to do was kiss his delectable lips. His little smirk had made
me want to bite down on his lower lip to punish him for being so damn cocky.
But then he’d seemed icy to me. I was better off not fantasizing about some guy
who’d managed to tie me up in knots inside after a few sentences of
conversation. My taste in guys sucked!

 
    The bathroom door flew open, interrupting my line
of thought. “Lex, I thought you were going to fix me up a Hewett Hangover
Smoothie?” Aubrey whined at me.

 
    “I am. Just give me a second to finish up in here.
Dad called and wants me to join him on a quick charter to the East Coast this
weekend. Can you throw a change of clothes and my Econ book into a bag for me?”
I asked.

 
    “As long as you promise to fix me up as soon as you
are out of the shower. My head is killing me, and I need to get some studying
done so I can party with Faith and Natalie tonight since you are abandoning me
again!”

 
    “Yeah, yeah, yeah. I know. I suck as a best friend.
Sorry I have to bail on you tonight. Maybe we could do a movie night sometime
this week?” I offered.

 
    “Yay! But I get to pick the movie. No action
movies! Chick flicks only, got it?” Aubrey replied as she walked out of the
bathroom. I didn’t know which was worse—the idea of going to another party with
her or being stuck watching some dumb movie she picked out. The things we do
for our friends.

 
    By the time I had gotten ready to go, all three
girls were sitting in the common area, waiting on me to make them smoothies.
“Hey,” I greeted everyone, and they nodded their heads at me and went on
gossiping about the party last night.

 
    “Did you hear what happened with Drake and Sasha
last night?” Natalie asked. I almost nodded my head before I realized she
wasn’t speaking to me. Normally I would have no idea what she was talking
about, but I was the only person in the room who had seen Sasha practically get
kicked out of the party.

 
    “No, what happened?” Faith replied as she leaned
forward to catch everything Natalie had to say.

 
    “I heard that Sasha showed up at the party, without
being invited, because she’d assumed that Drake wanted her there. I don’t know
why she thought she was so special. Word around campus is that he never invites
girls over to the house—ever. And certainly not for a party,” Natalie gossiped.
“And that when she showed up, he pulled her through the house and to the back
door so he could make it clear to her that he didn’t want her there.
Supposedly, she freaked